Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wise old man in charge, and Dirk Benedict and Richard Hatch play Han Solo and Luke Skywalker . . . oops, Lieut. Starbuck and Captain Apollo. Galactica's version of Artoo Detoo is a robot dog, a "daggit," named Muffit. Unfortunately, the duplicator at Universal Studios, which is producing the show, seems to have broken down before it could re-create the inimitable Threepio or Star Wars' Wookie, the most famous Teddy bear since Winnie-the-Pooh...
...programming v.p. at NBC. This was nasty gossip, because Dunaway played a feral TV executive who might run over her grandmother in pursuit of higher ratings. Bolen survived all the talk and has now re-emerged as the executive producer of W.E.B. Set at a fictional TV network, the show is Bolen's rejoinder to the movie that savaged her. Or at least it is supposed to be. Curiously enough, the heroine of W.E.B. (Pamela Bellwood) is also a predatory TV executive, who, in the opening episode, sells out her lover in pursuit of higher ratings. With friends like...
...tawdry roman à clef aspects aside, W.E.B. is not without its amusingly smarmy moments. This show's view of the industry is even more vicious than Network 's. According to Bolen, TV is run by sex-crazed, alcoholic, pill-popping men whose contempt for the public is exceeded only by their contempt for each other. "Television is a monster that never stops eating," explains one of them. True enough, but W.E.B. gives viewers that rare opportunity to watch television throw...
Apple Pie (Sept. 23, ABC, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.). Other people have bad days, so why shouldn't Norman Lear? It must have been a dark afternoon in Beverly Hills when the producer dreamed up this sitcom. A dumb idea, indifferently executed, Apple Pie is easily the worst show ever from the Lear factory. It makes Hot I Baltimore look like Heartbreak House...
This year, the 200th anniversary of Piranesi's death, his fame as one of the master etchers of architecture has been enhanced with major exhibitions in London, Venice and the U.S. The most notable show opens this week in the spectacular new East Building of Washington's National Gallery. The largest collection of Piranesi's relatively rare drawings went on display last week at Manhattan's Morgan Library. The Morgan is also publishing a catalogue that will illustrate its entire Piranesi holdings...